Monster wrote:I just saw the movie Fantastic Planet last night as a DVD from Netflix. It's from 1973. Holy crap, what an awesome movie! Best movie I've seen in ages.

I saw Fantastic Planet when it came out. It was put on as a double feature with an acid surf film "Morning of the Earth". I went with my parents.

There are quite alot of obscure foreign science fiction films, shorts and features that float around. My brother Thomas, teaches film at University of NSW and he suggests which films the National Film & TV Archive office should acquire copies of. Most are terrible, a few are good, the best are just weird.

Anybody ever read William Tenn's story about how humans might reach the stars, as "rats" in the walls of giant alien's spaceships? That story may have inspired "Fantastic Planet", it was a hit when it came out, before the movie was made by years.

I saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes yesterday. It was definitely worth the price, much better than the last Apes movie. Unlike Tim Burton's attempt to revive the franchise, this one will succeed in droves.

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Monster wrote:Saw Captain America last night. It was fun, but it's actually a generic Hollywood action movie. I await the future movies, Captain North America, Capitán Peru, and Capitaine Quebec!

As a WWII hysterian I was amused by the "secret Nazi aircraft" and other inside jokes. The person(s) who put them in know(s) the mythology of Nazi Germany rather well. There are some great screenshots pending from that movie.

Monster wrote:Saw Captain America last night. It was fun, but it's actually a generic Hollywood action movie. I await the future movies, Captain North America, Capitán Peru, and Capitaine Quebec!

As a WWII hysterian I was amused by the "secret Nazi aircraft" and other inside jokes. The person(s) who put them in know(s) the mythology of Nazi Germany rather well. There are some great screenshots pending from that movie.

Which ones, specifically? The rocket propeller thing? The flying wing? The little bomb shaped fighter thingies? And are you a real hysterian? Or an amateur historian?

Monster wrote:Saw Captain America last night. It was fun, but it's actually a generic Hollywood action movie. I await the future movies, Captain North America, Capitán Peru, and Capitaine Quebec!

As a WWII hysterian I was amused by the "secret Nazi aircraft" and other inside jokes. The person(s) who put them in know(s) the mythology of Nazi Germany rather well. There are some great screenshots pending from that movie.

Which ones, specifically? The rocket propeller thing? The flying wing? The little bomb shaped fighter thingies? And are you a real hysterian? Or an amateur historian?

I have my Master's in History from Purdue, '04. I am co-owner of the largest WWII document sites on the internet (acknowledged by the Wall Street Journal and the National Archives, among others), that kind of hysterian.

And yeah, all those aircraft have been in the Nazi mythology for quite a while, in one form or another. None of them flew in combat AFAIK, however, and most never left the drawing boards.

Martin Brock wrote:I saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes yesterday. It was definitely worth the price, much better than the last Apes movie. Unlike Tim Burton's attempt to revive the franchise, this one will succeed in droves.

The SFX come from Weta in New Zealand. They spent buckets getting computer monkeys "right" in the remake of King Kong and are now going for profit by remaking all the Planet of the Apes films. You have to agree that this is a somewhat unusual "I.P. capital inverstment". Good luck to them. I'm looking forward to seeing the film.

The new Torchwood series "Miracle Day" is a US co production. I stopped watching the early Torchwood series as a "bit too silly" but the editing pace of the co-production has been slowed down and the producer is letting a real science fiction story develop. I don't like the "new new" Dr Who's as they concentrate on fast pace, SPX and "out of the blue" remedies. However there have been a couple winning single episodes.

The new Torchwood series "Miracle Day" is a US co production. I stopped watching the early Torchwood series as a "bit too silly" but the editing pace of the co-production has been slowed down and the producer is letting a real science fiction story develop. I don't like the "new new" Dr Who's as they concentrate on fast pace, SPX and "out of the blue" remedies. However there have been a couple winning single episodes.

I've only seen the very first of the "new new" Dr. Whos, so I can't say much yet. I didn't particularly like the first episode, but I'm going to watch a few more before I make a judgement.

rickoshay85 wrote:Alas...Ape movies just haven't been the same after Roddy, Kim, Heston and Maurice Evens died, especially Maurice.

It was superb casting. ( You left out James Whitmore). I have the 1977 Cinemafantastique magazine special on the Planet of the Apes. The director Shaffner though he was making a political anti-religous film. Rod Serling beamed down to earth just long enough to kick off the screenplay. I was not impressed with the Tim Burton remake.

Did you watch "Lost in Space" on TV? Do you remember the Jupiter II crashing on a planet in Series 1? It is exactly the same sound FX and location as the crash in Planet of the Apes. I wonder which came first?

In the original "Mechanic" (1972) the apprentice hit-man was played by Jan Michael Vincent.

In the original, the apprentice succeeds in killing his teacher,by ingeniously poisoning him. But,the apprentice still gets blown up in the car. The house does not. The original is a superior film.. Charles Bronson is more quietly menacing and believably sophisticated than Jason Statham and Jan Michael Vincent is great as junior;so innocent-but-evil.

Trivia; Jill Ireland, who played the prostitute, was Bronson's real-life wife. She featured in many of his films.

I just saw An American Carol, the "rightwinger" propaganda movie from a few years ago. It was actually very funny at first, but it rapidly slipped into sucking ass mode. It made a few good points but overall, was boring.

I heard the theatrical version stunk, but the directorz kut wuz good. So I got it on BR since it wuznt available at the librery. It wuz OK az I woct it, altho I got a little bored by the meandering plot, plus its over 3 owrz. Good acting, action, special effects, cinimatography etc. Nothing at fault in the execution uv the film, but.... It shrinks on you.

Yes! Thats wut I mean - the oppozit uv growz on you! Over the last 2 dayz I realized that most uv the karaktrz are dispicable, the alternate Earth theyve created iz glum and depressing, the story iz anti-inspiring. Its based on a comic, so I suppoze sum fanz must think its terrific. Left a bad taste in my brain.

The Adjustment Bureau I like. Good movie to wash the Watchmen stench away. They get sum powerful atmosfere and story strength with a few very simple special effects. Az far out az the premise iz, they make it believable without doing alot uv work.

Saw Contagion last night. 'Twas ok. Wasn't actually scary. For some reason, it had a lot more big name celebrities than most movies.

And by the way, I loved Watchmen.

EDIT: I just remembered. There's a wooist in Contagion. He was profiting from the disease and the deaths of millions. He was a conspiracy theorist who accused the makers of the vaccine to be liars, and he promoted a homeopathic cure. He made millions of dollars promoting the homeopathic cure, and it was killing people since they avoided the vaccine. When I saw that, it made me think of Jenny McCarthy and Alex Jones. Alex Jones is directly profiting from his conspiracy garbage, but I don't know if McCarthy is.

Iv had a hankerin to go see a movie in the theater lately. I want to see Contagion. Drive iz out now also and they both hav Brian Cranston but I dont want to spend 20 and 2 risky theater trips *, so I'm in a quandary!

*My car very often loozez its main motion capability after a stay in theater parking lots.

Monster wrote:EDIT: I just remembered. There's a wooist in Contagion. He was profiting from the disease and the deaths of millions. He was a conspiracy theorist who accused the makers of the vaccine to be liars, and he promoted a homeopathic cure. He made millions of dollars promoting the homeopathic cure, and it was killing people since they avoided the vaccine. When I saw that, it made me think of Jenny McCarthy and Alex Jones. Alex Jones is directly profiting from his conspiracy garbage, but I don't know if McCarthy is.

She's selling books so she's making something from that. I'm not convinced that it's all necessarily about financial gain either. Some people get off on the attention, that can be worth more to them than money.